Gerald Janecek

Gerald Janecek is Professor of Russian Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, and the author of The Look of Russian Literature, Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism, Sight and Sound Entwined: Studies of the New Russian Poetry, as well as multiple scholarly articles. He has translated Andrei Bely, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Vladimir Aristov, and other Russian poets. The first to translate Vsevolod Nekrasov into English, he devotes a chapter of his book on Moscow Conceptualism to the poets’s minimal and visual works, and his reminiscences of their meetings are provided in the afterword to the UDP edition of Nekrasov’s selected poems, I Live I See.